Nominations are being accepted for the 2019 Moira Erin O’Donnell Emerging Leaders for Justice Award, honoring graduates of Jesuit colleges and universities ages 23-33 who have shown significant leadership for justice.

On April 17, 2018, ISN presented the Robert M. Holstein Faith Doing Justice award to Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J., who, as founder and executive director of Homeboy Industries, has committed his life’s work to providing hope, training, and support to formerly gang-involved and previously incarcerated men and women.

The Ignatian Solidarity Network strongly condemns the Trump administration’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador in September 2019. TPS protects individuals and families who would otherwise be in harm’s way in their countries of origin, which are recovering from catastrophic events such as natural disaster, war, famine, or disease. As people of faith, we believe in the dignity of human life and denounce a decision to return people to conditions where their lives will be immediately put in danger.

As the official kickoff of the second year of the Ignatian Carbon Challenge on September 1 approaches, high schools in the Ignatian and Catholic network are preparing to continue to bring Laudato Si’ to life in their classrooms and institutions.

Throughout the upcoming Lenten season, more than thirty writers from throughout the national Jesuit network, including Fr. Greg Boyle, S.J. and Sr. Norma Pimentel will explore response to injustice through a daily blog series entitled “Rise Up: A Lenten Call to Solidarity.”

As the 2016 election cycle draws to a close, the Ignatian Solidarity Network will, this weekend, welcome nearly 2,000 people to Washington, D.C. for the 19th annual Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice.

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The Ignatian Solidarity Network (ISN) is a national social justice network inspired by the spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola. ISN was founded in 2004 and is a lay-led 501(c)3 organization working in partnership with Jesuit universities, high schools, and parishes, along with many other Catholic institutions and social justice partners.